un coeur et une tête

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

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Jaime Gil de Bieda (via breathemystardust)

my life in a nut shell

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“i was the same year as adele at brit school…and we used to hang out at lunch and someone would play a guitar and we would try to out-riff each other…”

LOLL

April 15

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

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Uma Thurman (via savasana)

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April 8

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

—
Eleanor Roosevelt

January 23

thereluctantrawfoodist:

Says it all!

verybestme:

Ann Wigmore is a food genius. Must remember this saying.

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November 26

O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

—
John Keats

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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John Keats

November 7

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January 17

Creativity is first of all an act of destruction.

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Picasso.

“Violence for a painter is the first brush stroke on a canvas. Everything that in the work on the painting, as Picasso indicated, is about correcting that initial action.”

—A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart

January 3

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering—these are noble pursuits and neccessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love—these are what we stay alive for.

—
Dead Poet’s Society (via biograph)

December 27

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It was a delightful evening….for walking the streets of that part of the Apple called the Bronx. There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then perform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

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Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.

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We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through sensual gratification, cheap mass-produced goods, boundless credit, political theater and amusement. While we were entertained, the regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled, the laws that once protected us were rewritten and we were impoverished. Now that credit is drying up, good jobs for the working class are gone forever and mass-produced goods are unaffordable, we find ourselves transported from “Brave New World” to “1984.” The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war and corporate malfeasance, is sliding toward bankruptcy. It is time for Big Brother to take over from Huxley’s feelies, the orgy-porgy and the centrifugal bumble-puppy. We are moving from a society where we are skillfully manipulated by lies and illusions to one where we are overtly controlled. Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where no one wanted to read books. Orwell warned of a state of permanent war and fear. Huxley warned of a culture diverted by mindless pleasure. Orwell warned of a state where every conversation and thought was monitored and dissent was brutally punished. Huxley warned of a state where a population, preoccupied by trivia and gossip, no longer cared about truth or information. Orwell saw us frightened into submission. Huxley saw us seduced into submission. But Huxley, we are discovering, was merely the prelude to Orwell. Huxley understood the process by which we would be complicit in our own enslavement. Orwell understood the enslavement. Now that the corporate coup is over, we stand naked and defenseless. We are beginning to understand, as Karl Marx knew, that unfettered and unregulated capitalism is a brutal and revolutionary force that exploits human beings and the natural world until exhaustion or collapse.

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Chris Hedges (via azspot)

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October 11

Your stage does not have to be at Carnegie Hall. Your audience does not have to be in black tie. The people in attendance may not even be able to afford tickets. But everyone deserves art. Everyone needs art. How lucky for you that you have a world that needs you.

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Audra McDonald

Fucking love this.

September 16

alittlebitofeverythingglorious:

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